I don't know when I can pick up your responses. My system has been down
for 2 days for installing new memory and HDD, and backing up [backed up
entire 2GByte HDD in zip files to 'large sector' drive on new HDD. Took
less time than just about anything I've done before. Hint: PKzip has a
new switch to allow you to designate a drive you want the temp files
placed in. If you are short on space on drive where you are working,
this could make zipping there possible; better yet, if you name a RAM
drive for temp files, pkzip can FLY! It was writing more than a half
dozen small files per second!]
Have any of you ever been in the following situation: Add new memory,
system recognizes memory at boot up and shows it all as OK. Software
doesn't recognize that new memory is there [DOS 5.0, DOS 6.2, QEMM
Manifest] and there is actually LESS memory available to use????
If so, how did you cure it!!??!!
Second, don't know if any of you can help. I'll start the process of
finding the right person tomorrow via phone if they are open, or I'll
have to wait until Monday...
I have installed a 3COM 10baseT Etherlink card in my system, so I can
hook up to cable modem. Big problems though. Something in the
cfg/install programs has decided that QEMM386 is a copy of EMM386 that's
older than ver 4.49 and won't work with PCI cards. [yeah, righ]. The
only way I got the card installed was stealing pieces of DOS 6.22 and
using setver -- but memmaker isn't worth the powder to blow it to hades,
and DOS LOADHIGH is a joke! The best I can get is 527 conventional
memory, but above the 640 line the memory is too fragmented to load
epppd for tcp/ip ... and I'll need it [of course]. I read the hints and
tips someone posted in this batch of messages I d/l'd today, and I've
tried/done all the DOS things I could. <sigh>
Anyone ever manage to install a 3Com NIC using QEMM on the system? Any
NIC using QEMM?? I don't know how the software is determining the
version number; they provide "showver.exe" and in checking QEMM386 and
both copies of EMM386, none of them provide version number according to
3Com's own software ... although EMM386 v 4.49 does have the numbers
inside it. Since I don't have any idea what factor is used to decide if
the EMM is "appropriate" I don't have any idea how to hack a fix.
HALPPPPPPPP!
l.d.
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